Reading Asia
Manjeet DhillonTracing how ideas, art forms and sacred objects travelled across Asia, and what they became at every stop.
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Before the Monsoon Route: Neolithic Nephrite Trade Across Island Southeast Asia
On 16 June 2026, sixty Tao people from Orchid Island, Taiwan, completed a 179 km paddle across the Bashi Channel to Batan Island in the northern Philippines, arriving to drum and dance performances from the Ivatan community waiting on shore...
At Street Level: Hué
The taxi rounded a corner on the way to Thien Mu Pagoda one morning and there they were, a group of young women in flowing white áo dài on an open stretch of ground, moving through what appeared to be a dance rehearsal, arms tracing slow ar...
The First Crossings: Austronesian Movement Across Maritime Asia
This series is about learning to see. Every object has a history before it becomes an object. Before a sculpture can be carved or a temple built, someone has to carry an idea across the sea. You have stood in front of a Buddha countless tim...
Part II: Reading Asia's The Index
Reading Asia is built on two documents. Part I introduced the first: the chart. This is the second.
The chart shows you 19 countries (as at June 2026) from 1.5 million BCE to the present, sorted chronologically. Scroll to the 7th ce...
Part I: A Visual Map of How Ideas Travelled Across Asia
Introducing the Asian Civilisations Chronological Chart
This chart began during a Covid lockdown, in the space between restlessness and curiosity. I had been reading about Srivijaya, about the Pyu cities of Burma, about how a Licchavi p...
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Researcher, writer and incurably curious reader of culture. Following the journeys of people, goods and ideas that shaped maritime Asia.
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